Hunts
States
Of InterestWe keep it simple: one cost for all seasons, all leases, all states.
Meet the hunters and office staff, all four of us, that do the best we can to give all a good hunt.
This establishes the relationship between the hunter and MAHA
Membership agreement and release of liability form
Describes the membership application process | All hunters want more places to hunt than time to hunt as we all want options. How to make that possible so none of us fall short on options and do not have to watch the same trees each time out is one aspect of Mid-America Hunting Association's success as determined by self guided hunters returning and renewing their membership each year.
The basic operation is not to lease single purpose land as the bulk of our leases. An easy example is that our overlapping deer and turkey populations within the row crop agricultural regions of Kansas, Missouri and Iowa allow us two seasons of hunter use. As not all hunters hunt every season or all season long there is always land available as more than one hunter is paying that land's lease costs. Add to this that quail in Missouri occupy the same region as the better deer and turkey hunting again due to the land's heavy use into grain crops makes for multiple use land where collectively several hunters pay for the same land and all hunt it at different times. By this multiple use land we gain more acreage for each hunter than any of us could afford if we were a single hunter discipline organization. Iowa is a prime example. If all we catered to were Iowa deer hunters we would not be able to have the acreage we have leased now due to Iowa's restricted deer tag draw. We just do not get enough deer hunters to pay for the Iowa lease costs. Similarly, that while the upland bird hunter carries much of the cost Iowa land lease costs once Kansas and Missouri upland bird season opens the Associations' upland bird hunter membership disperses across Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. It is the combination of the upland bird hunter and the deer hunter that combined allows us to lease as much land as we do in Iowa. Not all is right for all hunters. The deer hunter believes a that the land that he hunts should be idle and free of human pressure until he has completed his hunt. land costs simply prohibit that and all who have done the most cursory research will quickly conclude this as well. This type of short sighted deer hunter will only be happy on his own land or lease where he can help the economy by taking acreage out of production, spend money on food plots and run his 4-wheeler to his hearts content. Place all of one's effort on limited acreage limits options. Most deer hunters will realize it takes an amount of acreage typically larger than the average person can afford to have the quality of deer hunting desired. How to gain that amount of acreage remains the challenge and what Mid-America Hunting Association offers is one choice to consider. Self guided turkey hunters are far more easier to satisfy than the trophy whitetail deer hunter. Turkey hunters realize the finesse required and seek safety. Turkey hunting is also fairly easy to manage. In this case it is simply math. The number of leases that have roosts over the number of season days by the number of hunters. This is a math formula we need not track as spring season turkey hunters are very much a minority as are duck hunters. The call/decoy hunting disciplines that require absolute skill over the more lucky nature of deer hunting and the tenacity aspect of upland bird hunting keeps turkey hunters at a minority level. We have never been in the position of having more hunters than lease with roosts. Upland bird hunters and multiple use land are segregated by quail and pheasant hunters. Quail hunters are a minority less than spring turkey hunters. A good quail dog is a tough dog to develop and many that quail hunt do not have the dog power to make for better quail hunts. Quail hunters are also the most conservationist minded hunters in the Association. Quail hunters are hunters that do not seek the harvest as the primary purpose of the hunt. There also is not any self guided "trophy" hunter competition as there are no trophy quail. Quail hunters hunt for the value gained from watching their dogs work. To gain that satisfaction requires quail and most quail hunters realize that shooting all the quail will lead to destruction of their recreational activity. Quail hunter impact on multiple use land is to walk through a large portion of acreage each season and add to the budget pool by their membership dues. Their impact ion the land is limited to a couple of hours any hunting day per lease. Pheasant hunters while covering some of the least expensive land also hunt fewer days and are on average with the traveling deer hunter for days in field. While the pheasant hunter may enjoy the land leased primarily for pheasant hunting there have been more than one deer hunter to harvest a trophy from the small wood patch along side the pheasant field. |
